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The Qur'an in Morocco is recited differently from Egypt

Each canonical reading is transmitted through named students, usually two of them, so ten readings arrive as twenty transmissions. The one most of the world reads is Hafs from Asim, both men of Kufa, which the Cairo edition of 1924 printed and which spread with it. In Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and much of West Africa the reading is Warsh from Nafi of Madinah, and a printed Warsh Qur'an looks noticeably different on the page, with different vowel signs and spellings. Parts of Libya read Qalun from the same Nafi. Sudan and the Horn read al-Duri from Abu Amr. The same text, in more than one transmitted form, on shelves a few hours' flight apart.

Hafs, Warsh, Qalun and al-Duri